Train-order holder.



A. L. GROOM.-

TRAIN ORDER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPTA. 1912.

1, 1 1 7,665. Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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ARCHIE L. GROOM, 0F W'HITE RIVER, SOUTH DAKOTA.

TRAIN-ORDER HOLDER.

Application filed September 8, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHIE L. GRooM, a citizen of the United States, residing at White River, in the county of Mellette and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Train- Order Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to train order holders or deliverers, and has for its primary object to provide a novel means for delivering an order or the like to a person on a rapidly moving train without danger of personal injury to the one receiving the order.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a device of this character which will be simple in its construction, being formed from a single strand of wire, durable, and efficient in its operation.

Other objects as well as the nature, characteristic features and scope of my invention will be more readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims forming a part of this specification.

Referring to the drawings :Figure 1 is a plan view of the device constructed in accordance with my invention illustrating the application thereof; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

In the drawings wherein is illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention, a substantially U-shaped body portion 5 is provided which is of a substantially Z- shaped configuration in side elevation as shown to advantage in Fig. 2, and has radiating from the base of the U a handle 6.

The holder is made from a single strand of wire the midway portion of which is bent so as to provide a handle 6, the extreme ends 7 thereof turned at approximately right angles to the body thereof and being slightly arcuate as indicated at 8 and shown to advantage in Fig. 2. A portion of the strand of wire adjacent each of the right angled ends 7 thereof is offset as shown at 9 thereby providing a substantially Z-shaped structure in side elevation. The device may be made of any suitable metal, preferably of a resilient character in order that the cable 10 on which is mounted the order 11, will be held taut.

In reduction to practice it is obvious that Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 788,583.

the device may be manufactured at a minimum cost in view of its simplicity, and is likewise durable in view of the material of which it is composed, while at the same time the device will effectually perform the operation which will be now set forth. The message or order supporting cable 10 1s eng aged over the right angled end 7, lying in the depressed portions 8 thereof, which are provided by arcuating the ends, downwardly in substantially parallel relation with the sides 12 of the U-shaped frame and around the oflset portions 9 or the base of each of the Zs so as to provide a rectangular structure as shown to advantage in Fig. l. The person on the train who is to intercept the order 11, usually the engineer, passes his arm in the rectangular structure which is provided by the peculiar arrangement of the cable 10 around the U- shaped form, thereby pulling the cable from engagement with said frame, and incidentally the message which is secured to the cable. \Vhile the message is being delivered to the person on the train or other vehicle to which it is to be passed, the handle 6 is held in the hand of the person delivering the message, and the free ends of the right angled portions 7 turned in the direction in which the train is moving, this as is obvious will allow for the ready extraction of the cable 10 from its engagement with the U-shaped frame. However, should the device he held in a reverse direction, due to the inadvertence of the person delivering the order or the like, it is evident that the cable 10 will only be broken and no personal injury done either the deliver-er or the person who is to receive the order.

It will be understood that the above description and accompanying drawings comprehend only the general and preferred embodiment of my invention and that various minor changes in detail of construction, proportion and arrangement of the parts may be made within the scope of the appended claims and without sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A train order deliverer including a substantially U-shaped member having a handle radiating from the base of the U, and the ends thereof bent at substantially right angles to the body thereof, the arms of and the upper portion of each of said 2- said U being z shaped in side elevation for shaped arms being slightly arcuate for the the purpose set forth. purpose set forth.

2. A train order deliverer including a In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature 5 single strand 0% Wire, said wire being heart in presence of two witnesses.

midway the en s thereo so as to provi e a handle, the opposite ends of the wire be- ARCHIE GROOM ing formed into a substantially U-shaped Witnesses: structure, each of the arms of the U being DONALD SINCLAIR, 10 substantially Z-shaped in side elevation, E. O. CHRIsTEsoN.

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' Washington, D. G. 

